Monthly dom wind dir web tag

[muppet77]

Hi all.
Happy New Year.

Is there a web tag that gives this months dominant wind direction please?
I know the monthly log file has it but I'd like to "get at it" for use with php.

Any ideas?
Regards.

[steve]

There's no web tag. It's in the NOAA-style reports as a compass point.

[muppet77]

Thanks Steve. I guessed that would be the case as I had a good search.
Any ideas on getting to php? (Words or bearing?)

[steve]

Didn't someone write a PHP parser for the NOAA reports? And I tried to keep them 'standard' so that any existing tools could be used. I had rather assumed/hoped that in providing the NOAA reports, that they could be used for the summary information that isn't available elsewhere in Cumulus. Perhaps this was a forlorn hope.

[steve]

Kevin did a parser for the NOAA monthly reports (i.e. the ones with the daily summaries) produced by WD: http://www.tnetweather.com/nb-0005.php

I used Weatherlink as the basis for the Cumulus ones, but I imagine that his code could be adapted if necessary, and also used as the basis for a parser for the annual reports (i.e. the ones with the monthly summaries).

[muppet77]

Thanks both.
I do have this set up but can't seem to find the bit I need.
http://www.maidenerleghweather.com/cumu ... e/noaa.php

[steve]

If you select a year, it will show you the dominant direction for each month, e.g.

2014-01-03 18_15_12-www.maidenerleghweather.com_cumulus_website_noaa.php.png

But your display box is cut off, so you can't see any months after April, so if you select 2013 you can't see the months that you actually have data for:

2014-01-03 18_15_40-www.maidenerleghweather.com_cumulus_website_noaa.php.png

[muppet77]

Thanks Steve. I meant I don't know how to access that monthly dominant direction so I can use it in php.
Which variable of the script do I need to look for? Thanks.

[steve]

In Kevin's script? It looks like $value[12] to me. But that's the daily dominant direction, that script doesn't parse the annual report with the monthly direction.

[muppet77]

It's the monthly dom dir reported in the monthly summary that I am after. The one in the bottom right corner under the line.

[steve]

I don't think this script handles that line. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that this script would do what you wanted, unaltered; I was suggesting it as a possible basis for a script to parse the report to extract the information you want.